Wisconsin Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus, elected chairman of the Republican National Committee last Friday after seven contentious rounds of balloting, is expected to help remedy the party’s dismal fund-raising operation. But at least personally, the rising Republican star is hardly a major political cash contributor, a Center for Responsive Politics analysis indicates.

NEW LIBERAL SUPER PAC GEARS UP FOR 2012: Kathleen Kennedy Townsend — the daughter of slain senator and one-time presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy — is calling on Democrats to “build an understanding of what’s at stake” in 2012 by gearing up for an outside spending battle during the upcoming presidential election cycle.

Federal records show that RNC Chairman Michael Steele opened his personal checkbook for just one federal candidate during the 2010 election cycle. Our PolitiQuizz question to you: Who is that very special Republican?

American Crossroads, which some have dubbed the “shadow Republican National Committee,” is at the vanguard of political entities that are taking advantage of the new campaign finance landscape in the wake of January’s Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling that lifted restrictions on corporate cash in political advertisements.

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